Tag archives for apocalypse
Welcome to post-literacy!
These are excerpts from an NYT “Interesting Times” podcast episode where the guest was the Times of London columnist James Marriott, and the host was Mary Harrington. The full video…
Someone is using Claude to kill software development
A couple of days ago, I nearly fell off my chair when I read Joey Sneddon’s report. Then, Futurism mentioned the news. I expected global hysteria, yet no such thing…
The fake Luis Burgado piano player and violinist
It’s an open secret that AI-generated fake artists are disrupting the music industry, and that the public is stupid enough to enjoy AI-generated music. Things seem, however, to be completely…
Rughiniș nu crede în apocalipsa AI
Spre deosebire de ramolitul de Geoffrey Hinton și de traumatizatul de Jacob Coxon, Răzvan Rughiniș tot nu crede în apocalipsa AI. L-am mai menționat pe excentricul nostru profesor de la…
Did AI kill us yet?
I’m so sick of this new hysteria! Our natural stupidity would probably kill us before AI does. But hey, we still have to tackle this sorcerer’s apprentice situation, eh? I…
An exercise in futility
That would be Eric Schmidt’s opinion in the WSJ: Ukraine’s way of fighting war can’t match what’s coming. Excerpts: I have traveled to Ukraine throughout its long war with Russia,…
Firefox is the measure of how fucked-up software is today 😡
Firefox 154 on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 21H2 Build 19044.7663. With only 4 tabs, it takes 3 GB of RAM: Facebook, Outlook, Gemini, and my blog. Information retrieved via…
Siemens: the One Flop or the One Hope for Europe?
Not long ago, ZDF broadcast an 18-minute documentary titled Warum sich Siemens gerade für immer verändert (“Why Siemens is changing forever right now”). Only after I concocted this automated but…
Is there an ePub apocalypse? A case study and beyond it
A chat with Gemini, what else? ❶ Ludditus: Back in the day, when ePub readers included models from Sony (PRS-300, 350, 500, 505) and many other brands, I was rabid…
The CCPA and the GDPR will eventually kill Linux
I don't expect people to read carefully the details that accompany the release of Debian 13.6. It's just a bunch of updates, right? Even I couldn't be bothered, but as…
Chat Control 1.0 is back on!
The Soviet Union of Europe is becoming more like Mother Russia because our Duma—sorry, I meant the European Parliament—is populated by retards who fell for the “it's to protect our…
Când Justiția poate suspenda tot ce vrea ea: cazul ROMATSA ● Acum și Justiția belgiană!
Cazul ROMATSA este încă una din acele situații în care România se dovedește un Absurdistan complet, țara lui Papură Vodă, regatul lui Ubu. Din nefericire, nu doar judecătoarea Liana Alexe…
Not the smartest piece Euronews could have published
Claus Strunz, CEO and editorial director of Euronews, produced an opinion piece that, coming from such a position, is actually an editorial. While several assertions are most likely true, the…
Christopher Barnatt is sometimes useful
I once wanted to write a post about the SMR (Shielded Magnetic Recording), which is one of the worst possible ideas of the 21st century! Some retarded, accountant-minded CEO considered…
Erik Dubois is still on steroids
Does anyone remember ArcoLinux, a distro now discontinued? I do. It was quite famous, much more than EndeavourOS is today, because it offered a bunch of different ISOs, each with…
How do you recognize a failed country, a cardboard alliance, and a civilization in decline?
This is an English adaptation of a text posted in Romanian on Facebook. The translation was fully made by Gemini, with minimal adjustments. In the context of the Galați drone,…
GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows
While the new Lenovo placidly runs Debian 13 XFCE installed via Xebian Trixie (not Unstable), there’s still an Acer that has not received any Windows yet and runs MX XFCE.…
Is Debian the Answer?
What I meant is this: Is Debian the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything? The context is that of a new Linux local privilege escalation…
I never saw anything as stupid as Git (and GitHub)
I didn’t lose anything because of the stupidity of Git—to which GitHub adds its own limitations—except for my temper. Too many times. This could have been avoidable if I were…
The golden age of free LLM chatbots might soon end + BONUS
I'm trying to collect my thoughts on the current situation regarding the public availability of LLMs. This post comes as a quick follow-up to “Free AI coding agents are becoming…